Inking device



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A. D; 'KLABER. INKING DEVICE.

No. 543,831. Patented July so, 1895 NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUSTUS D. KLABER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE NEOSTYLE' COMPANY, OF NEW JERSEY.

INKING' DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 543,831, dated July 30, 1895. Application filed August 25, 1894:- Serial No. 521,326. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS D. KLABER,

a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, re-

siding at New York, in the county of New York and State of- NewYork, have invented a certain'new, useful, and valuable Improvement in Inking Devices, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My present invention relates to improvements in inking devices, and has for its object to provide the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a detailed perspective view showing an inking-slate with my improved ink-reservoir applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the same,- partly in section. Fig. 3 is a top View of an inking-plate of a printing-machine, showing two of my improved ink-reservoirs applied-thereto. Fig. 4. is a detailed side elevation of the same, drawn partly in section. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are detailed views of the folder, around which the top end of the ink-tube is gradually folded or wrapped.

Like characters of reference indicate similar parts throughout the SQVBlIfLLVlGWST The body of my ink-receptacle A is made in the form of the zinc or tin-foil ink-tubes, such as are now being generally supplied with duplicating apparatus, and smaller sizes of which have long been used for fine paints, &c. The customary mode of extracting the contents of suchink or paint tubes has been to squeeze end A with the fingers, thereby forcing a quantity of the material out of the 0pposite end A which is generally supplied with a screw-cap A In general use, especially with duplicating apparatus, the outside of these tubes from being laid around, especially when laid inadvertently upon the ink-slate, becomes more or less inked, and subsequently the hands become more or less soiled, which is a very serious objection to the users of duplicating apparatus, especially when as a final result a quantity of paper is spoiled in handling.

The use of my improvement obviates the above objections, and, furthermore, results in 50 the saving of ink.

I will proceed to describe my device as applied to an ink-slate, such as is used with duplicating apparatus, and shown at Figs. 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings. A metal tube B extends-from the outer edge 0 of the slate O underneath to a point C where the end of the tube B is flush with the upper surface of the ink-plate. The opposite end of the tube B is extended through the wooden frame 0 and terminates in a screw-socket B into which the screw-cap A of the tube A is screwed, as shown. The opposite end A of the tube, having been previously folded around a folder, is turned so as to fold up more of the flexible tube, so that the ink is thereby forced out of the ink-tube and through the conveying-tubeBuntil a sufficient quantity is forced out of the end B, where it is taken up by the inking-roller and afterward evenly distributed over the slate 0. Under this arrangement the tube A never becomes inked, and even if it did only the thumbs and forefingers are required to touch the ends A of the folder. These folders can be stamped out of sheet metal, as shown at Figs. 5 and 6, or may be formed of a piece of wire, as shown at Fig. 7.

\QN hen employed on a printing-press I prefer to arrange two or more conveying-tubes upon the statidifa-rypart D of the inking-slate and beyond the revolving-disk D, the discharging ends of the tubes being so located that the upper inking-roller in its extreme upward movement just covers said openings B. As shown at Fig. 3, the right-hand conveying-tube 8 5 B has a tube of ink applied thereto, while the left-hand conveying-tube has not, and the latter in this case is not supposed to be supplying ink to the inking-plate D, while the righthand one, which may contain an ink of a dif- 9o ferent color from the other, supplies the ink as often as the folder A is turned by the thumb-holds A I do not limit myself to the use of my improved ink-tube or inking device in connection with a conveying-tube, as it is obvious that my folder can be advantageously employed for expelling the ink from flexible tubes when used in the ordinary way.

Many minor changes or modification may be made Without avoiding the spirit of my invention, as,

\Vhat I claim, broadly, is-

1. In an inking device, the combination with an ink-plate of a frame surrounding said plate, an ink-conveying tube connecting said frame and plate, a flexible inkcontaining body provided with a discharge aperture, and detachably con nected to one end of said tube, and means detachably connected to the closed end of the flexible body for collapsing the latter and forcing its contents out through the conveying tube onto the ink-plate, substantially as described.

2. In an inking device, the combination with an ink-plate, of a frame surrounding said plate, an ink conveying tube connecting said plate and frame, an internally screw-threaded nipple mounted in the frame around the tube, a flexible ink-containing body having a discharge aperture atone end, an external screw- 

